Apoptosis in the rat spermatogenic epithelium following androgen withdrawal: Changes in apoptosis-related genes

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 461-470

  Woolveridge, Ian ^a   De Boer Brouwer, Mieke ^b   Taylor, Matthew F ^a   Teerds, Katja J ^b   Wu, Fred C W ^a   Morris, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; DNA FRAGMENT; FAS ANTIGEN; PROTEIN BAK;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, BCL-2; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MESYLATES; ORGAN SIZE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 0032917807     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.2.461     Document Type: Article

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